SAP Functional Consultant

Business Unit:

Cubic Corporation

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

Job Summary:

Analyzes complex business problems to be solved with automated systems, specifically in SAP Record to Report (FI, GL, AR, AP, Tax, Asset accounting, OpenText VIM, Banking) applications. Provides technical expertise in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet user requirements. Configures system settings and options; plans and executes unit, integration and acceptance testing; and creates specifications for systems to meet business requirements. Designs integration between SAP and other business applications. Provide consultation to users in the area of processes. Lead cross-functional linked teams to address business or systems issues. Support and lead projects.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strong SAP technical, configuration, and business area knowledge in Finance modules
• Includes experience in the Treasury module
• Configures and deploys ERP application and business processes, specifically in SAP Finance (FI, GL, AR, AP, Tax, Asset accounting, OpenText VIM, Banking) and other business-related applications
• Developing RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversion, Enhancement and Forms) specifications to complete custom development
• Interfaces with customers during design and deployment of business solutions. Manages the solutions through deployment, training, and hand-off activities
• Translate user s requests into application system solutions. Analyze system user requirements to define and design system configuration, enhancements, and modifications
• Staying current with new technologies especially within the SAP areas to align technologies with the business direction.
• Building strong internal external stakeholder relationships by aligning system solutions to changing business requirements
• Leads critical thinking with constituents to determine best business practices.
• Identifies problems and research alternatives through testing and consulting with peers
• Prepares presentations, gains consensus from client and implementation team, and implements solutions.
• Design test plans, execute test scenarios, validate test data, and document test results
• Supports business process testing of the application prior to end-user acceptance testing
• Participates in end-user acceptance testing
• Manage projects of small to medium size and scope
• Perform project management and detailed analysis of business practices, processes, and scenarios. Redesign procedures to suggested best business practices in concert with SAP functionality
• Perform the majority of the project management functions of the user groups including coordinating, organizing, planning and scheduling, communicating, tracking accountability, ensuring documentation, monitoring and evaluating, problem solving and technical assistance
• Support projects are delivered on time and on target of the budgets
• Participates in cross-functional teams to explore process improvement initiatives, measure results, and refine processes to achieve business objectives
• May work on support and integration of non-SAP applications or systems
• Maintains accuracy of helpdesk database of reported problems and participates in resolution
• Work in multidisciplinary teams to define and design complex processes and procedures for the configuration, upgrade, and maintenance of SAP and related application systems
• Participates in the creation and enforcement of IT software standards and procedures

Minimum Job Requirements:

Minimum of four-year university degree or equivalent with a minimum of 8 years business analyst work experience or relevant post-secondary education. Experience using SAP, and MS Office applications preferred. Requires understanding of Record to Report stream including FI, GL, AR, AP, Tax, Asset accounting, Banking, OpenText.

Project management familiarity desired. Must have excellent communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with diverse groups including managers, and subject matter experts to communicate new ideas/issues. Must be very detail orientated, be able to plan and work flexibly to a deadline and have strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Worker Type:

Employee